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Newspaper
The Weekly Times Record
Location
Valley City, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1922
Page
3
William A Radford explains a practical 46 by 36 foot gambrel barn to shelter a dozen horses or work stock. The design features light ventilated stalls, storage, and a separate harness area. Emphasizes planning with architects to avoid costly errors and ensure durable, weather tight construction.
A scientist while photographing the sun from Pikes Peak observed swarms of insects hovering at high altitude. Their numbers were so great that light reflected from their bodies noticeably increased the brightness of the scene.
The article details an eight by stock sized barn suitable for any lumber yard. It sits on four concrete foundations with one concrete floor in the stable. The design features ten single stalls opening to a center alley aligned like top dairy barns. Sunlight avoids eye glare while reinforcing litter alley sterilization. A central feed alley allows wagon passage and a carrier truck above for feed and litter movement to a manure shed.
A dialog reveals concerns about a collapsing house. One speaker asks if the landlord was told, and the other says the landlord dismissed the risk, claiming insurance is secondary and offering to write accident coverage for them and the dog.
Stevens, a bank teller, plans an exit theft after hours with four thousand dollars in hundred dollar bills but finds only Confederate notes when he opens the packages. Waterbury dies in a wreck, leaving Stevens to assume his duties and a new $2,500 monthly salary, while the bank pursues the missing funds.
The Birmingham Age-Herald quotes a bold remark about Senator Snortsworthy potentially retiring. The remark suggests his retirement would require dismantling one of the era's most efficient political machines in a free and enlightened country.
A Baltimore American quote recounts a dialog about a father aiming for large interest in a business. The exchange notes concern that bigger interest means greater risk and questions the prudence of such leverage in a serious investment.
The Russian consul, M. Basilieff, seeks a cure for his ailing daughter Olga from famed Jewish doctor Arnheim. Arnheim refuses a fee, revealing a vendetta for Minsk massacre that killed his son. He proclaims Olga’s life saved, vengeance fulfilled, and departs.
An agriculture worker in Duchess County New York received medical care after a bee flew into his ear and buried itself deeply while he worked near a hive. The bee stung him as he attempted to remove it and had to be extracted by a doctor after the insect lodged in the ear passage.
A London Tit-Bits piece compares human diving nostrils to seals and camels, noting how seals close nostrils to keep water out and camels protect their nasal passages from desert dust. It highlights natural valve-like nostrils as remarkable adaptive traits in animals.
The Philadelphia Ledger recalls Ole Bull’s Nashville visit in the 1840s when a elegant woman removed her velvet mantle and laid it on the bare floor to honor the famed violinist. Bull bowed, then played, using the mantle as a refined stage gesture amid an unfinished hall.
Scotsman advises housewives on preserving aluminum utensils. Wash clean with warm soapy water, dry immediately, and invert vessels to drain. Do not use soda, polish exteriors with fine whiting and leather, and use metal polish only where suitable.
Admiral Dandas notes in An Admiral's Yarns that Scotsmen abroad are fine but those at home are narrow. He observes a tendency for a Scot to favor a countryman when choosing between near equals and mocks Edinburgh’s world view from Calton Hill to Haymarket.
Eleven year old Doris, daughter of a suburban lady, completes porch chores on a Saturday morning while skies threaten a drought and rain. She contemplates nature taking its course and then heads off to play with a neighbor girl, as prompted by her mother. The exchange captures a child’s simple reasoning amid unsettled weather.
United States Department of Agriculture reports show peace time uses of surplus war materials for highway work. Ambulances, water sprinklers, and bomb shelters have become survey cars, whitewash sprayers, tools and explosives storage, while motor trucks receive dump bodies and hoists. Idaho Maine and Arizona lead with altered vehicles, snow plows and sprinklers repurposed to extend and perfect national highways, with total value around 50 million dollars and near 30 thousand motor vehicles plus substantial spare parts converted for road building.
The federal highway act will only designate roads up to seven percent per state, chosen by the state and approved by the secretary of agriculture. States push rapid map preparation for the system with flexible rules to allow immediate construction of roads deemed likely to join the system. Washington submitted the first complete state plan on December 27, with other states expected soon.
A gateway is being erected where the Pacific highway crosses the Canadian border at Blaine Washington to commemorate a century without fortification or clashes along the 3,000 mile boundary. Inscribed over the doorways are the legends Open for 100 Years and May These Doors Never Be Closed.
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